Ireland vs France rugby match twitter analysis
During the Ireland versus France RBS 6 nations rugby game a hash tag was used on twitter to mark everyone’s tweets about the match. The tag used was #merde (don’t blame me for that one..).
I did a bit of analysis on all the tweets, removed the hash tag and the @usernames and split the tweets into time segments. Then I plugged the text into Wordle to get a work cloud. I think the results are quite interesting to look at and they speak for themselves…
1700 – 1710
3 mins: PENALTY Ireland 3-0 France
1710 – 1720
1720 – 1730
15 mins: TRY Ireland 3-7 France
1730 – 1735
1735 -1740
1740 – 1745
34 mins: TRY Ireland 13-7 France
1745 -1750
1750 – 1755
HALF-TIME: Ireland 13-10 France
1755 – 1800
1800 – 1805
1805 – 1810
43 mins: TRY Ireland 20-10 France
1810 – 1815
50 mins: TRY Ireland 20-15 France
1815 – 1820
54 mins: DROP-GOAL Ireland 20-18 France
1820 – 1825
1825 – 1830
1830 – 1835
66 mins: TRY Ireland 27-18 France
1835 – 1840
1840 – 1845
76 mins: PENALTY Ireland 27-21 France
1845 – 1850
78 mins: PENALTY Ireland 30-21 France
1850 – 1855
FULL-TIME: Ireland 30-21 France
Post game – 2000
February 8th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
I like how the clouds get more frantic as the match goes on, leading to a flurry of c’mon/oshit/woohoo posts in the final ten minutes!
Great match and hopefully you can report on more successful matches in the next few weeks. And we’ll find out the welsh for merde.
February 8th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
That’s great work Patrick. Very impressive. Looking forward to the next one.
February 8th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Great work patrick, serious kudos dude.
February 8th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Cool to see how the number of tweets increases as the game goes on. This hash tag is a great way to bring everyone together with a common interest, in this case kicking the French’s arse!
February 8th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Thanks for all the generous comments folks!
Took a bit of work to do this one but worth it in the end. I’m going to work on making the process more automated for the next one…
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Wonderful! Looks really great. Thanks for sharing
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February 10th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Excellent analysis, captures the mood, like the different time segments, more expressive than my one on http://blog.mymunster.com/2009/02/09/a-twitter-word-cloud-the-6-nations/
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